The University of Iowa Environmental Health Sciences Research Center EHSRC Pilot Grant Program seeks innovative, environmental health-related research proposals. Proposals for laboratory and/or field research will be accepted. Researchers from University of Iowa who are eligible to apply for K or R01 grants from NIH may apply. This specifically includes Postdoctoral Fellows, Post-doctoral Scholars, Faculty (all ranks), Research Scientists, Research Engineers, Associate Research Scientists, and Associate Research Engineers.
https://ehsrc.public-health.uiowa.edu/member-resources-opportunities/pilot-grant-program/

Areas of EHSRC interest for funding include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Studies of susceptibility to environmentally induced disease
• Studies of developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD)
• Nanotoxicology
• Role of microbiome in environmental health
• Environmental risk factors for disease
• Human and Animal toxicology
• Enhanced assessment of exposures to environmental agents
• Environmental remediation and control
• Water quality and human health (particular interest in receiving applications that employ interdisciplinary teams (i.e. biomedical researchers and engineers) to study water contaminants
• Air quality and human health
• Engaged research on environmental justice communities
• Disaster Response Research
• Studies of the health effects of vaping and hookah

Researchers from University of Iowa who are eligible to apply for K or R01 grants from NIH may apply. This specifically includes Postdoctoral Fellows, Post-doctoral Scholars, Faculty (all ranks), Research Scientists, Research Engineers, Associate Research Scientists, and Associate Research Engineers.